Motivational Quotes

Silence

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

- Delint, Charles

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

12.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

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The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

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Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

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The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

31.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George

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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

41.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

42.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

43.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

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An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Delint, Charles

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.